How do they compare?

Rook, just a few hours after birth. Notice the tongue.


Alexa, a few hours after birth.
I think they have some definite differences and similarities.

Alexa Bree

Breech babies have a hard time straightening out
after birth.


Here she is after Joe gave her a bath.
I didn't get to see her or hold her for about 3 hours.

On the way home from the hospital.
Rook calls her baby Alecka.

Luckily Joe's parents were here and were able to take care of Rook.
He had so much fun working in the backyard with Grandpa.

She was 8 pounds even and they measured her at 19 inches, but since she was breech (Bree) they couldn't stretch her very well. Today at the Dr she was 20 and 1/2 inches long. I don't think she grew an inch and a half in a week.

The C-section was tolerable. The Dr forgot to tell me not to eat for 8 hours...so we had to wait until 830pm. Unfortunately, I went into labor anyway and my contractions we're about 3 minutes apart, but they couldn't give me anything. My body goes into shock when I'm in labor so I had the whole shaking and teeth chattering going on until the anesthesiologist came and drugged me up. I found out later there was a semi-emergency C-section that took my spot and I ran into her in the hallway a few days later. She told me if it weren't for someone who ate an apple after they were supposed to, she would have had 3 more hours of total pain...I told her how much I love me some apples. We bonded.

Now that it's over, I'm slowly healing. My incision seems to be too swollen and a little red so I'm on antibiotics for infection there. Pretty much I couldn't move without help for 4-5 days. Now, a week later, I feel alot better.

Alexa is a great nurser and sleeps very well. She doesn't cry and just sort of squeeks when she wants to eat. So different from the Rookasaurus.

A little SURPRISE

My ward through me a little shower since

I'm having my first girl. It was so fun and

she gots lots of cute outifts and a really nice swing.

I went in for a little ultrasound to check for fluid and saw that the baby is breech. So instead of being induced on Monday...C-section. Not what I had planned, but I'm feeling less scared as the days go by. Any words of wisdom?

We're getting closer

So here I am a few weeks before delivery.
I'll be induced on the 21st if she doesn't come before.
Since I live down here away from family...I'm
putting this on here...Don't make me regret it!

Rook loves to give kisses. He puckers his lips up
really well. After every prayer he has to kiss us both.
It's so cute. At night, he kisses me good night and
then blows kisses until I shut the door.

Rook is our little fish this year. He's not quite 2,
but fearless. I'm okay as long as he has his
floaties on. He swims as fast as I do...which makes it
hard to catch him.

We're enjoying these last few weeks of a 1 child family.
Joe starts school again in 3 weeks so we're trying to do
some fun things before the misery starts...new baby and
school. Like...we go swimming...and what else? Oh yeah,
we're totally broke, so we watch lots of movies that are
really, really old.

Rook is talking up a storm. He tries to say everything now
and that gives us some good laughs. It really bugs Joe when
he's feeding Rook and Rook says, "all done, Mom" and I'm
not even home. He's been getting really good at colors too. So
instead of shovel, now it's yellow shovel. And he has to repeat
everything until you acknowledge that you hear him. He'll say
Mom Elbow 10 times, getting louder and louder until I say,
Yep, that's mommy's elbow. Then he does Cheek or truck or
bike...it's so fun to be home all day with such a smart boy...

A little obsessed

So Rook could play with this toolbox for HOURS
and did after Church on Sunday. I used it in sharing
time, afterwhich I broke down in the hallway and
couldn't go back in to get it.
I have 3 sunbeam classes and one of my teachers
didn't come. I had already gotten a sub for another
one and so I split the classes into 2 and each one
had 15 three year olds. The Deacons tried to move
them to another classroom...the gym and I said
no way! The pianist wasn't there and the chorister
didn't know the songs planned or what time primary ended.
Thanks to miscommunication from me.
In one of my 2 nurseries 2 of the 3 people didn't come
because their parents were in a car accident on their mission
(maybe you read about it in the Church News) and I didn't
know about it. I'm already 1 person short in the other nursery
so I was scrambling trying to find help for them all while
doing sharing time. So yeah, broke down in the
hallway after sharing time. Luckily, The 2nd Counselor
in the Bishopric saw me and he's the one over Primary.
He got all my teachers called before the 3rd hour was over.
Sometimes good things happen when you're 7 months
pregnant and can't control your tears!

So I keep making these blankets because they're
so easy and cute. This one was actually a little harder
but turned out cute anyway. Rook is pointing out
my mistakes...I guess he comes by his obsessiveness
honestly.